Ministry of Personnel
| Ministry of Personnel | |||||||||
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| Chinese | 吏部 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Officials Department | ||||||||
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The Ministry of Personnel was one of the Six Ministries under the Department of State Affairs in imperial China.
Functions
Under the Ming, the Ministry of Personnel was in charge of civil appointments, merit ratings, promotions, and demotions of officials, as well as granting of honorific titles.[1] Military appointments, promotions, and demotions fell under the purview of the Ministry of War.[1]
See also
- Scholar-bureaucrat or mandarin
- Imperial examination
References
Citations
- ^ a b Hucker (1958), p. 32.
Sources
- Hucker, Charles O. (1958), "Governmental Organization of The Ming Dynasty", Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 21: 1–66, doi:10.2307/2718619.
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